Sports ramblings…with a Yankees bias!

Yanks-BoSox, Let The War Begin…

The New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox for a three game series at Fenway Park in Boston beginning Friday, April 24, 2009. If the Yankees take the series, Julia has to change her website banner to show the Yankees logo. Conversely, if the BoSox take the series, I will have to sport the dreaded Red Sox emblem on this site.

But, let the record show that Julia has the unfair advantage of home field! But it is her birthday weekend, so I suppose some concessions must be made…

I am wondering what Julia’s site will look like…

Julia’s Rants

My feelings about the Boston Red Sox New York Yankees, baseball, sports and life in general.

Sweet! :)

This bet actually reminds me of an ongoing bet that I have had with a friend in Tampa named Kelly. Kelly has been a devout Devil Rays, excuse me, Rays fan for many years.

She was a season ticket holder for Rays games when getting a root canal was preferable to going to Tropicana Field. She likes to get her season tickets in the upper balcony, and there were often times that you would need binoculars just to see the person sitting next to you.

For several years, the bet has been about bragging rights.

For each series played during the season, the winner has bragging rights until the next series is played. Whichever team takes the season series has bragging rights throughout the off-season, and the other person is powerless to retaliate.

When the bet was first made, I had the advantage of the high and mighty Yankees against the lowly, pathetic then Devil Rays. Of course, tables were turned on me last season, and I had to reluctantly take what I had been giving for so many years. Fortunately for me, the Yankees went out and spent $423.5 million in the off-season, so hopefully, I’ll be able to return to my “perch” again this year!

Actually, Kelly let me know that I had a thing or two to learn about “bragging” as she showed me how it is really done!

It’s going to be a very exciting summer in the American League East…

Manny Is Officially From Another Planet

Manny Ramirez has turned down the Dodgers for the fourth time. I thought the latest offer was very generous given the current state of the economy. Plus, it isn’t exactly like there are teams beating down the door to sign Manny.

A quick scan of the Los Angeles Times’ Business section shows the following headlines:

GM posts $9.6-billion quarterly loss

Source: U.S. on verge of deal to boost its stake in Citigroup

Student loan companies’ shares plunge on Obama proposal

U.S. banks post collective $26.2-billion quarterly loss

Weak healthcare stocks drag market lower

The sun sets on the Rocky Mountain News

667K new jobless claims; continuing claims top 5M

AIG could be broken up

Economy still going south

I feel that Manny is proving to be very selfish, and we are seeing the true player that exposed himself in Boston. It is a very unfortunate situation, and the Los Angeles Dodgers deserve better.

On a side note, that is sad news about the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, which became Denver’s first newspaper on April 23, 1859.

Other Tidbits for a Friday…

Admittedly I do not follow the PGA very closely, but who is Tim Clark and how did he beat Tiger Woods?…

The Minnesota Vikings should be announcing later today that they have acquired QB Sage Rosenfels from the Houston Texans. I am not sure how I feel about the acquisition. Granted, I do not think that Tavaris Jackson is the answer, and Gus Frerotte is getting too old. I really like Matt Cassel, but when the New England Patriots placed the franchise tag on him, it removed him as a possibility as the cost to acquire him would be so great. Picking up someone like Jeff Garcia or even Michael Vick is equally unappealing. There just doesn’t seem to be any viable answers out there, so perhaps Rosenfels is the best option available. The cost to acquire Rosenfels is reasonable (fourth round draft pick, and contract extension of three years for $9 million). Like Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner, Rosenfels hails from Iowa. He was born in Maquoketa, IA, and played college football at Iowa State. Given that I also grew up in a small Iowa town, I can relate to Sage and Kurt (well, except for the part about the million dollar contracts…and okay, the superior physical conditioning…and, I know, the heighth of the players…). Hopefully, Sage can have some of the success that Kurt has experienced. His stock was very high after the 2007 season, but the bloom lost much of its luster this past season when he went 2-3 filling in for injured QB Matt Schaub.

The Phoenix Suns, minus star Amare Stoudemire, have now suffered blowout losses to the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers within the past week. The Suns were also without Steve Nash in the loss to the Lakers, but this has been a very disappointing season. The Suns, if they make the play-offs, look like they’ll suffer another first round exit…

On the bright side, the San Jose Sharks beat the Ottawa Senators last night, 2-1. The Sharks were powered by two power-play goals by Milan Michalek and Patrick Marleau, which were scored 1:18 apart in the second period. The Sharks, 42-9-9, lead the Western Conference by 5 points over the Detroit Red Wings.

Have a great weekend everybody!

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I have no worries about losing Scott! But may I add to our wager – in addition to changing our “headline” for a day – you…I mean the loser of the wager……needs to put the other team’s logo at the top of that Monday’s post so that it will be there for posterity! I mean I know that on that Tuesday you’ll be changing your headline back! :-D! Have a great weekend and listen to Kelly! If not I’ll have to teach you about bragging! I’m going to have a really great birthday this year. Oh – and your Vikings are not getting our Cassel!

Well, you’ve gone and done it now, Scott. You put more pressure on the Yanks in that Red Sox series at Fenway than they already had. Now they HAVE to win or you’ll be eating crow for a long, long time!

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